Daisy Mays has been on my list of eats to try since I walked by their 11th Ave. restaurant about year ago. I was walking down 11th Ave. and was smacked in the face by the smoking smell of BBQ about three blocks away.
Today I got a chance to stop in a see what all the buzz is about. I walked in the corner located restaurant front and made my way over to the counter. When you walk in you are hypnotized by the smell of smoking slow cooked pork.
A friendly and warm welcoming man with a white outfit and white hat stood behind the counter and waited to help me. I took a minute to go over the menu and try to make some last minute decisions on what i wanted to feast on. With things like Ribs, Chicken, ,Beans, Greens, Macaroni and Cheese all on the menu is was tough narrowing it down. With the smell of sweet roasting pork in the air I couldn’t wait any longer. A Pulled Pork sandwich with a side of beans and macaroni and cheese were ordered up. The persistent and some what funny guy taking my order also almost insisted that I get something to drink with my meal. Jokingly he mentioned that he didnt want me to choke on my food. The drink options were pretty endless from, canned soda, to sweet tea’s and beer. All great compliments to the menu.
With in 2 to 3 minutes our food was served up and we walked around to the sitting area. This is just like high school. Your food comes on a tray, you find a seat with some one you know, in this case my wife and you eat. The room itself is pretty consistent wit the BBQ food theme. Tons of wood paneling a few pictures and my favorite, an old faded Iron Chef poster.
The food. Man. The food. You know your food is good when you have to walk back to the counter you got it from and let them know. The pulled pork sandwich was smokey and rich with BBQ flavor. It was also not sauced. This is a big point because most other BBQ joints serve pulled pork soaked in BBQ sauce. When you taste pulled pork at many other places your tasting bbq sauce not the pork. Daisy May’s servers their pulled pork sand which up with out the sauce all over the place. All the flavor is in the meat. The sandwich also stayed together excellent on the bun. This is another rarity when it comes to pulled pork. Nothing dripped off the side or on my shirt. Alot of care was put into this sandwich. From the more then 8 hours the meat cooked slowly to the soft bread and final construction. Chef Adam Lang has a true passion for the details that are so often over looked. Even the meat it self tasted like it was combed through with a fine tooth comb. All the chunky little pieces of fat that you usually get pulled pork in sandwiches and tacos was removed before it hit the bun. Its either that or it just disappeared in he 8 hour+ cooking process. Either way eating it was care free. Its the small details like this that separate this from the rest. To say this mouth watering pulled pork BBQ sandwich occupied my thoughts for the rest of the day would not be an understatement.
If your in this area. You owe it to your self to stop in and get some smoked pig. This is was BBqs about.
